Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 240

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

12th June 2001

Coming into operation

23rd July 2001

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 13(1), 19C(1) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and in accordance with Article 19C(3) of that Order with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 23rd July 2001.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2.  In paragraph 18 of Schedule 2 to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(3) after the words “Offenders Order” there shall be added “, or Article 37A of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(4).”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 11th June 2001.

L.S.

Sam Foster

Minister of the Environment

The Department of Finance and Personnel approves these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 12th June 2001.

L.S.

Rodney Scott

A senior officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

The Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 inserted a new Article 37A into the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 whereby a court may order a person to be disqualified from driving on the grounds of non-payment of child support maintenance.

These Regulations amend Schedule 2 (licence fees) to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to extend the provision enabling the Department to charge a fee for a licence granted upon the expiry of a period of disqualification ordered by a court to include such a disqualification.

(1)

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”; Articles 13 and 19C were substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3), Schedule 1; Article 13(1) was amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1, paragraph 5; Article 19C was amended by S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10), Schedule 3, paragraph 8 and S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1, paragraph 11

(2)

Formerly the Department of Finance; see S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6), Article 3

(3)

S.R. 1996 No. 542; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 383, regulation 22(2), and S.R. 2000 No. 129, regulation 2

(4)

S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23); Article 37A was inserted by 2000 c. 4 (N.I.), section 16(3)